Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze trapped the Grand Elder in Thunder World and rejected his offer of wealth, attacking him with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and Origin Emperor Flame. The Grand Elder was left severely wounded and under Xiao Ze’s control.

• Xiao Ze brought the three women into Thunder World, where the Grand Elder was trapped and already injured by lightning.
• The Grand Elder recognized Xiao Ze as a Dou Saint and offered his Storage Ring in exchange for his freedom.
• Xiao Ze used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to stun the Grand Elder, then struck his vital points and took control of the crimson snake.
• Xiao Ze sent Origin Emperor Flame into the Grand Elder’s shattered meridians and seized control of his Dou Qi.

Xiao Ze and Qing Lin subdued the Grand Elder, while Yao Ming defeated Yao Xiaotian and reclaimed control of the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan. Yao Ming thanked Xiao Ze and offered him the Heaven-tier Dou Skill left by the Yellow Spring Demon Saint.

• Qing Lin formed a soul contract with the Grand Elder, and Xiao Ze healed him with medicinal pills before Qing Lin stored him away.
• Xiao Ze withdrew Thunder World and saw Yao Ming defeat Yao Xiaotian in their battle.
• Yao Xiaotian tried to self-destruct, but Yao Ming used the Nine Serenity Nether Staff to suppress and seal him.
• Yao Ming reclaimed control of the clan, ordered the elders to manage its affairs, and dealt with those who had supported Yao Xiaotian.
• Yao Ming thanked Xiao Ze for his help and asked whether he wanted the Heaven-tier Dou Skill left by the Yellow Spring Demon Saint.

Xiao Ze agreed to attempt the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance trial in exchange for the high-grade Heaven-tier Dou Technique, Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath, and the Demon Saint Essence Blood. Yao Ming arranged accommodations for Xiao Ze’s group and took Yao Xiaotian to the bottom of the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring.

• Yao Xiaotian tried to drive a wedge between Yao Ming and Xiao Ze by accusing Yao Ming of betraying the clan, but Yao Ming crushed his throat.
• Yao Ming explained that he offered the technique because Xiao Ze controlled the Grand Elder and because he hoped the clan could benefit from Xiao Ze’s strength.
• Yao Ming revealed that Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath was part of the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance and required passing a trial guarded by his remnant soul.
• Yao Ming said that passing the trial could also grant Xiao Ze the Demon Saint Essence Blood left within the inheritance stele.
• Xiao Ze agreed to attempt the trial, and Yao Ming arranged lodging for his group before taking Yao Xiaotian back to the bottom of the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring.

Yao Ming eliminated Yao Xiaotian’s remaining loyalists and led Xiao Ze and his companions to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet. Xiao Ze entered the tablet’s inner realm, where the chapter ended with him confronting the ancient space created by the Yellow Spring Demon Saint.

• Yao Ming purged Yao Xiaotian’s loyalists to protect the clan’s secrets and prevent future trouble.
• Yao Ming assured Xiao Ze that he would honor their cooperation and guided him and the others to the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet.
• Yao Ming warned Xiao Ze that the tablet’s soul pressure had once left him badly injured, but Xiao Ze decided to test himself against the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s remnant soul.
• Xiao Ze formed a condensed soul body from the Origin Tree, told the others to keep people away, and entered the stone tablet.
• Xiao Ze appeared in an immense independent space inside the tablet and recognized that the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s spatial control far surpassed his own.

Xiao Ze entered the Yellow Spring realm and faced its lightning and other attacks with his soul power. The Yellow Spring Demon Saint appeared and urged him to return and cultivate, but Xiao Ze insisted on attempting the test of Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath.

• Xiao Ze flew through the lightning-filled realm and used his black-and-silver lightning to repel the realm’s attacks.
• Xiao Ze called for the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, who appeared seated on a throne atop a newly risen mountain range.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint praised Xiao Ze’s talent and told him to return after reaching Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection to receive his inheritance.
• Xiao Ze explained that he had come at the request of the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python clan chief and asked to attempt the test.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint warned that the test required withstanding one attack of Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath, but Xiao Ze insisted he could protect himself.

Xiao Ze survived the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath by shielding himself with the Origin Tree Roots and passed the trial. Afterward, he considered the secrets of the restored world and decided he might be able to resolve one of the Demon Saint’s doubts.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath at full strength, shattering the surrounding world with its soul-targeting sound waves.
• Xiao Ze protected himself with the Origin Emperor Flame and layers of Origin Tree Roots, which blocked the attack after the Golden Fire Cauldron broke apart.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint restored the world and saw that Xiao Ze’s soul was unharmed, surprising him with the protection of the roots.
• Xiao Ze asked whether he had passed despite using a shortcut, and Yellow Spring Demon Saint confirmed that surviving Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath fulfilled the trial.
• Xiao Ze thanked Yellow Spring Demon Saint and decided to help clear up one of the Demon Saint’s doubts.

Xiao Ze told the Yellow Spring Demon Saint that he had failed to become a Dou Emperor because the world no longer contained Source Qi. He began revealing what he knew about Tou She Ancient God, ending with the claim that the Ancient God had been a Heavenly Flame.

• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint described his failed attempts to break through to the Dou Emperor realm and warned Xiao Ze that the path was no longer possible.
• Xiao Ze revealed that Source Qi had vanished from the world, and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint urgently asked him to explain.
• Xiao Ze said he belonged to the Xiao Tribe and had learned about Dou Emperors from its ancestral records and a peculiar book about Tou She Ancient God.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint asked about Tou She Ancient God's origins, and Xiao Ze revealed that the Ancient God had been a Heavenly Flame born from heaven and earth.

Xiao Ze explained the Tou She Ancient God's origins and the depletion of Source Qi to Yellow Spring Demon Saint, resolving the regret that had weighed on him. In gratitude, Yellow Spring Demon Saint used his strength to form a Soul Origin sphere and offered it to Xiao Ze to help him reach Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection.

• Yellow Spring Demon Saint reacted with disbelief when Xiao Ze said the Tou She Ancient God had been a heavenly flame.
• Xiao Ze explained how a heavenly flame devoured the other ranked flames, became Emperor Flame, and was known as the Tou She Ancient God.
• Xiao Ze revealed that Source Qi had been finite since ancient times and that the Tou She Ancient God had found only two strands, leaving one in his inheritance and one in an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint realized that the lack of Source Qi, rather than his own failure, had kept him from becoming a Dou Emperor, and he thanked Xiao Ze for easing his regret.
• Yellow Spring Demon Saint gathered soul light into a Soul Origin sphere and told Xiao Ze to use it to break through to Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection.

Xiao Ze refined the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s Soul Origin and spent a month cultivating inside the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet. He reached Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection and gained the soul power to attempt refining Tier 9 Profound Pills.

• Xiao Ze thanked the Yellow Spring Demon Saint and began refining the pure Soul Origin light sphere while the Demon Saint guarded him.
• Xiao Ze used the Golden Sapling to tell Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin not to worry, while the Yellow Spring Demon Saint hoped he would reach Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Yao Ming that Xiao Ze had found an opportunity in the stele and would claim the Demon Saint Essence Blood and Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath afterward.
• Yao Ming left the next day to handle clan affairs, leaving the women a way to contact him if danger arose.
• After a month of continuous cultivation, Xiao Ze broke through to Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection, and the Yellow Spring Demon Saint observed his vastly expanded soul perception.
• Xiao Ze realized that his new soul realm would let him attempt refining Tier 9 Profound Pills.

Xiao Ze reached Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection, received Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath and two other techniques from the Yellow Spring Demon Saint, and accepted the Demon Saint Essence Blood before the Demon Saint's remnant soul vanished. He returned from the collapsing realm and told Xiao Yi Xian and the others to inform Yao Ming that Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath could now be cultivated.

• Xiao Ze realized that reaching Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection had strengthened his soul but left him far from the Emperor Realm.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint gave Xiao Ze Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath, Yellow Spring Finger, and Yellow Spring Palm.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint handed Xiao Ze his Demon Saint Essence Blood and faded away, resolving his regret before his remnant soul disappeared.
• The realm collapsed, and Xiao Ze returned from the Void Space to his body outside the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet.
• Xiao Ze noticed Yao Ming was gone and asked Xiao Yi Xian and the others to tell him that Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath could now be cultivated.

Xiao Ze shared the Demon Saint Essence Blood with Yao Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin after Yao Ming failed to learn the Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath due to insufficient soul power. Before leaving for Ancient Dragon Island, Xiao Ze secured Yao Ming’s promise that the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python Clan would stay out of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s civil war and might support its new Dragon Emperor.

• Xiao Ze explained what had happened inside the Yellow Spring Stone Tablet, and Yao Ming tried but failed to obtain the Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath cultivation method.
• Xiao Ze concluded that the stone tablet no longer punished unsuccessful attempts, but still required greater soul power to grant recognition.
• Xiao Ze divided the Demon Saint Essence Blood into five equal shares for himself, Yao Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin.
• Yao Ming predicted that the essence blood would help him reach the Three-Star Dou Saint level within three years, while Xiao Ze expected it to advance the others into the Half-Saint realm.
• Xiao Ze warned Yao Ming about the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s future conflict, and Yao Ming promised to avoid the Three Dragon Kings’ side and support the new Dragon Emperor if possible.

Xiao Ze and the others discovered the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python ancestral land at the bottom of the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring, where Medusa entered seclusion to cultivate. After she disappeared into the vortex, Xiao Ze set off with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for Ancient Dragon Island.

• Xiao Ze led the group through the Nine Serenity Yellow Spring and found a basin filled with Yellow Spring Yin Stones.
• Medusa sent a seven-colored snake of her bloodline into the basin, awakening a vortex that revealed the ancestral land of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Qing Lin sensed that the ancestral land was also a burial ground, and Medusa mourned the clan that had perished there.
• Xiao Ze encouraged Medusa to enter the vortex and promised to come to her aid if anything went wrong.
• Medusa entered the ancestral land to cultivate, and Xiao Ze, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin departed for Ancient Dragon Island.

Xiao Ze traveled through the Endless Void toward Ancient Dragon Island, refining the Demon Saint Essence Blood and testing the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s Heaven-class techniques along the way. He arrived at the island with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, where a guard greeted him.

• Xiao Ze left the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python headquarters with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, trusting Yao Ming and the Golden Sapling to protect Medusa.
• Xiao Ze refined the Demon Saint Essence Blood during the journey and reached the late stage of the one-star Dou Saint realm.
• Xiao Ze practiced the Yellow Spring Finger, Yellow Spring Palm, and Yellow Spring Heaven Wrath, clearing nearby spatial turbulence and destroying floating rocks.
• Xiao Ze informed Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that they had reached Ancient Dragon Island, and Qing Lin said she had advanced another transformation.
• Xiao Ze retrieved the Thunder Warship outside Ancient Dragon Island’s silver barrier, where a sturdy guard respectfully greeted him.

Xiao Ze visited Ancient Dragon Island, left Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin there, and returned to the Void Lightning Pool to transform his lightning power into Black Demon Lightning. There, he rescued Mang Tianchi from Black Demon Lightning and revealed that he had reached the late stage of the One-Star Dou Saint realm.

• Xiao Ze greeted Hei Qing and Elder Zhu Li on Ancient Dragon Island and learned that Zi Yan was safely cultivating in the Dragon Hall.
• Xiao Ze asked Zhu Li to host Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin while he trained in the Void Lightning Pool, then left for the pool alone.
• Xiao Ze entered the Void Lightning Pool, where his silver lightning mixed with black glimmers and drove away the surrounding lightning.
• Xiao Ze found Mang Tianchi being chased by Black Demon Lightning and shielded him with a curtain of lightning.
• Mang Tianchi was astonished to learn Xiao Ze had reached the late stage of the One-Star Dou Saint realm, and Xiao Ze said he intended to transform his lightning power completely into Black Demon Lightning.

Xiao Ze explained his method for transforming ordinary lightning into Black Demon Lightning and went to the depths of the Void Lightning Pool to continue cultivating. After successfully wearing down a Black Demon Lightning bolt, he estimated that he would transform all the lightning power in his body within a little over a month.

• Mang Tianchi asked Xiao Ze how he had transformed his lightning power into Black Demon Lightning, and Xiao Ze explained his method of using vast quantities of lightning to wear it down.
• Mang Tianchi gave Xiao Ze a jade slip containing the Lei Clan lightning art and decided to cautiously try Xiao Ze's method himself.
• Xiao Ze drew a Black Demon Lightning bolt toward him with silver lightning and trapped it inside a hundred-zhang Thunder World.
• Xiao Ze's lightning wore down the Black Demon Lightning, leaving its power tainted with a stronger black gleam.
• Xiao Ze repeatedly baited Black Demon Lightning with silver lightning as his own lightning grew darker and his aura continued to rise.

Xiao Ze completed his transformation into Black Demon Lightning and broke through to the early Two-Star Dou Saint realm after cultivating in the Void Lightning Pool. He left the pool to find Mang Tianchi, then learned that the Ancient Clan might not accept him easily despite his strength because of his girlfriend’s exceptional bloodline.

• Xiao Ze absorbed more than a dozen Black Demon Lightning bolts at once and sensed an opportunity to break through.
• Three days later, Xiao Ze advanced to the early Two-Star Dou Saint realm and completed the transformation of his lightning power into Black Demon Lightning.
• Xiao Ze found Mang Tianchi, who said he had infused a trace of Black Demon Lightning and expected to need over a decade to transform all his lightning power.
• Xiao Ze showed Mang Tianchi his fully transformed Black Demon Lightning, astonishing him with how quickly he had completed the process.
• Mang Tianchi warned Xiao Ze that the Ancient Clan’s elders might not approve of him because his girlfriend had the clan’s most perfect bloodline awakening in a thousand years.

Xiao Ze discussed the Ancient Clan ceremony and the Heaven Tomb with Mang Tianchi, then traded pills for three Earth-Rank Dou Techniques before heading to Ancient Dragon Island. There, Hei Qing confronted Xia Ao, who had arrived on the West Dragon King's orders to invite a royal-blooded clansman to West Dragon Island.

• Xiao Ze worried about earning Gu Yuan's approval, and Mang Tianchi reassured him that his Dou Sheng strength could silence the Ancient Clan's old guard.
• Mang Tianchi told Xiao Ze that the Ancient Clan ceremony would likely take place in about two months and mentioned the Heaven Tomb's opening.
• Mang Tianchi declined to accompany Xiao Ze to Ancient Dragon Island, then traded him three Earth-Rank Dou Techniques for pills suited to his cultivation.
• Xiao Ze left the Void Lightning Pool and flew toward Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xia Ao arrived at Ancient Dragon Island with armored followers and said the West Dragon King had sent him to invite a royal-blooded clansman to West Dragon Island.
• Hei Qing rebuked Xia Ao for calling the clan's leader a Dragon King, insisting that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had a Dragon Emperor.

Xiao Ze returned to Ancient Dragon Island as West and South Dragon Island forces prepared to seize East Dragon Island’s royal-blooded member. He killed the Savage Dragon Army’s commander Man Yan and then killed Xia Ao, leaving the invading armies in terror.

• Xia Ao demanded that East Dragon Island hand over its royal-blooded member, but Hei Qing rejected his claim and threatened the Three Great Dragon Kings.
• Xia Ao summoned the Dragon Armor Army while Elder Man Yan arrived with the Savage Dragon Army, and Elder Zhu Li refused their ultimatum.
• Xiao Ze appeared between the forces and revealed his Dou Sheng strength when Man Yan attacked him.
• Xiao Ze smashed Man Yan’s head with one blow, terrifying both armies.
• Xiao Ze appeared before Xia Ao and killed him with a slap.

Xiao Ze stopped the Dragon Armor Army and Savage Dragon Army from attacking Ancient Dragon Island, forcing them to surrender rather than killing them. He urged Zhu Li to conceal the island’s strength and then left with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian for the Ancient Clan’s ceremony.

• Xiao Ze defeated the enemy commander and offered the Dragon Armor Army and Savage Dragon Army the choice to surrender or die; they surrendered.
• Xiao Ze left the surrendered troops in Zhu Li’s care, and Zhu Li thanked him for sparing the clan members.
• Xiao Ze told Zhu Li to keep their victory secret and place Ancient Dragon Island on high alert while Zi Yan remained in seclusion.
• Xiao Ze gave Zhu Li a golden Space Jade Slip and said he was heading to the Ancient Clan’s ceremony.
• Xiao Ze set out for the Central Plains Eastern Region with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Ze, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to the Eastern Region for the Ancient Clan Ceremony, reaching Ancient Saint City after a two-day journey. At the city’s barrier, Xiao Ze recognized the immense pressure of a place left behind by a Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Ze visited the Pill Tower, handled some matters, and collected the Ancient Clan's Invitation Jade Slip.
• Xiao Ze set out for the Eastern Region with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian aboard the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python.
• Qing Lin estimated that they would reach Ancient Saint City in about two days, and Xiao Ze wondered how Xun Er was doing.
• The trio reached the outskirts of Ancient Saint City, put away the Nine Serenity Deep Ground Python, and joined other experts traveling toward the city.
• Xiao Ze and the others saw the barrier surrounding Ancient Saint City, and Xiao Ze recognized the city as a legacy left behind by a Dou Emperor.